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Guidance Document Change: Board of Medicine guidance on conversion therapy
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12/11/19  10:19 pm
Commenter: Kevin Zrenda

I suppose the AMA's "First, do no harm" doesn't count genital mutilation on teens and younger
 

First, free speech.  Second, reality (meaning scientific, biological, what your eyes would actually see).  This proposal would ban me from telling my children-- if they were actually confused on their gender-- that they are what they actually scientifically are... 

As a Democrat, we propose to care about all people.  Helping those who are confused should not be binned as hateful or harmful. If my father seeks help when he tells me the toaster talks to him, am I now evil and hateful for aiding him in seeking assistance for his condition?

There is only one study I've seen (which primarily solicited inputs from those who self-reported negative results from conversion therapy and continued "identifying" as their "new" gender) that emphasized any amount of negative impacts.

If we as a society care for and respect people, then there's no reason to fear talking through people's insecurities, doubts, and fears.  Many teens/youth have gender identity issues, most grow out of or through that stage and identify as their actual biological sex/gender. Yet this would deny that majority group any help.  How undemocratic to care for this group as well... care for all!

 

God Bless- Kevin

 

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